CD 1:
Kinan Azmeh:
Suite for Improvisor and Orchestra
Ibn Arabi Suite
The Fence, the Rooftop and the Distant Sea

CD 2:
Kareem Roustom:
Clarinet Concerto. Adrift on the Wine-Dark Sea

Zaid Jabri:
Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra

Dia Succari:
Paroles - Suite for Clarinet and Orchestra

This long-expected new double CD presents Kinan Azmeh as composer, soloist and outstanding improvisator together with the Grammy-awarded Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, conducted by Manuel Nawri. One CD presents Kinan as interpreter of his own music while the second CD presents three clarinet concertos that were written for him by the Syrian composers Kareem Roustom, Zaid Jabri and Dia Succari.

Finally it presents to the most recent of Azmeh’s works, The Fence, the Rooftop and the Distant Sea, a duo for clarinet and cello written for himself and Yo-Yo Ma, commissioned by the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg and first performed there in January 2017.

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Recording: 15.-16.02.2017 and 2.-4.05.2018, Jesus-Christus-Kirche Berlin